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Development Practices

It’s Dangerous To Go Alone! Pairing on Spike Work

We often ask for a pair when we're stuck, but pairing for spike work can be critical to laying a safe path forward.
Development Practices

Technical Spikes: A Recipe

So you’ve been assigned a technical spike — where do you start? The following is my general process for tackling technical spikes.
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The Benefits of a Spiking Phase in Agile Development

A spiking phase lets everybody working on the project gain a greater understanding of the system as a whole.
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3 Steps to Creating Spikes with Lasting Value

Spikes are great for exploring and de-risking problems. I'll outline three steps I take to make sure that spikes have lasting value for a software project.

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